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’ Meteorological Obfervations. 5a 
Mereorotocicat Observations, collected and 
arranged by Tuomas Garnett, M. D. Phyfician 
at Harrogate: Member of the Royal Medical, Royal 
Phyfical, and Natural Hiftory, Societies of Edin- 
burgh; of the Literary and Philofophical Society of 
Manchefter; of the Medical Society of London; of 
the Royal Irifh Academy, Sc. Communicated by 
Dr. Percivat. 
READ, MARCH 27, 1795. 
T is properly obferved by a late writer, that 
there is fcarce any fubje&t in which mankind 
feel themfelves more interefted, than in the 
ftate of the weather; that is, in the tempera- 
ture of the air, the influences of wind, rain, 
&c.* It forms a principal topic of converfa- 
tion. By the weather the traveller endeavours 
to regulate his journies, and the farmer his 
operations ; by it plenty and famine are dif- 
penfed, and millions are furnifhed with the 
neceflaries of life. It is intimately connected 
with the health of the human body, with every 
part of natural hiftegy, and particularly with 
agriculture. On accdant of the extenfive na- 
ture of the fubje&t, meteorology has long 
engaged the attention of philofophers; and 
many ingenious and plaufible conjeftures on 
the 
* Adams’s Leftures on natural philofophy, vol, 4. 
